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WHITEHOUSE: Improving Childcare Services

Companies like Rhapsody and Spotify have helped spread the peer to peer sharing model while slowing down illegal downloads by now offering the music industry a portion of the ad revenue they generate.

FORBES: Music To Our Ears

Because the new operations are based on a "peer to peer" business model, "issues can arise that are out of your control, " says the 25-year-old Mr. Smith, who launched SpotHero in July 2011 as a driveway-sharing service for the Chicago market, but has since shifted its focus.

WSJ: New Turf for Sharing Services: the Driveway

The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.

FORBES: LimeWire, BitTorrent and BearShare...Oh My!

It seems that the old model of cyber-attacks, involving peer-to-peer virus infection, is becoming increasingly ineffective as anti-virus companies step up their game, causing nogoodniks to rely on search results, websites, and zero-day attacks.

ENGADGET: Report warns of the increased use of SEO Poisoning to spread malware